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cucujoid

📅 Updated:2024-10-06
🕒 Created:2024-10-06
🆔 ID:63385

Description

Refers to species in the cucujiformia - an infraorder of beetles that includes most beetle families that feed on plants, including weevils, bark beetles and ladybugs.

Families:

  • Chrysomeloidea
    • Long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae)
    • Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)
  • Cleroidea
    • False skin beetle (biphyllidae)
  • Coccinelloidea
    • Minute bark beetle (Cerylonidae)
    • Ladybug (Coccinellidae)
    • Handsome fungus beetle (Endomychidae)
  • Cucujoidea
    • Flat bark beetle (Cucujidae)
    • Pleasing fungus beetle (Erotylidae)
    • Short-winged flower beetle (Kateretidae)
    • Lined flat bark beetle (Laemophloeidae)
    • Sap beetle (Nitidulidae)
    • Shining flower beetle (Phalacridae)
    • Silvanids (Silvanidae)
  • Weevils (Curculionoidea)
  • Ship-timber beetles (Lymexylidae)
  • Tenebrionoidea
    • Blister beetle (Meloidae)
    • Fire-coloured beetle (Pyrochroidae)
    • Darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae)